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Can you HANDEL our big GAY Opera?

This 18th century opera is set within a pastoral forest, where a peaceful community of nymphs sing how they are “Harmless, merry, free and GAY”. The beautiful Galatea has been caught off guard by her new found love for another woman – Acis. As this new romance has generated excitement and freedom between them, it must only be explored in the hidden depths of the forest where the ‘community’ is forced underground to avoid the pressures of social persecution. It is only a matter of time before their peaceful harmony is disrupted by the cyclops Polyphemus, who yearns for Galatea. Upon her rejection, he kills Acis as an act of vengeful rage. Alone, Galatea and her community mourn her loss and as an act of love, immortalize Acis by transforming her into a natural memorial.